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Ok, for those of you that have ever used Linux, then there may be the chance that you might have had to use xkill. But, for those that have never used Linux, then here is a good summary for you...

An App that your using Freezes, and your first thought it to CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up Task manager, then you have to wade thought the processes to find said frozen app, then kill it... Or you use xKill.

Using a system wide hook in xKill, when it is running, just Press Control+Alt+Backspace, and you will see a Skull and Crossbones follow behind your cursor. When you click on the next item (say, the frozen application), it will kill it. simple.

And just because i know that people will try this out with out having an app to kill, when the skull and crossbones is up, if you choose NOT to kill any thing, press Escape, and you will exit out of xKill mode.

No external references, this app is Portable, you will know when it is running doe to the color changing Skull and Crossbones in your system tray. you can Right click on the glowing icon to either go in to xKill mode, so that you don't have to do Control + Alt + Backspace, or you can exit out of xKill.

[Update]
At a user's request, you can now disable the tray icon... but then you have to use Taskmanager to kill xkill.
Fixed the (C) info also.
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Mood: Love ~pilus87 Jan 30, 2013
LOL such small program that's actually very usefull, especially for those obscurely named driver utilities program.

But I do wish that the skull icons are a little bit visible on my desktop.

As it is, replacing the icon using ResHack, resulted in the exe cannot be run.

Anyway thx for this program :)
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~JackO-Neill Mar 22, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you,I'll try it out and have a little fun :-)
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~prell Jul 14, 2011
Love it, thanks! Just used it!
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~theiwith Apr 2, 2011
=ขอบคุณ
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~SuprVillain Apr 2, 2011  Hobbyist Artist
ยินดีต้อนรับคุณ : D
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Mood: Joy ~somepeep Sep 13, 2010
Excellent!
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~AccForPost Jun 16, 2009
I've set the program to run on windows start, but I have to manually disable the taskbar icon every time. It kind of defeats the purpose to run it automatically. :) Could you add a command line switch to hide the icon without clicking anywhere?
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~SuprVillain Jun 16, 2009  Hobbyist Artist
i no longer have the source code for the app. doing so will involve me re-writing the whole app.

let me see what i can do.
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~usedlotofhell Jun 1, 2009
This needs to be featured. It's a godsent to the techs, you know that?

I throw it on my flash drive, nice tool for killing some malware!
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~SuprVillain Jun 2, 2009  Hobbyist Artist
It was featured on Lifehacker. However, if you mean featured as in a Daily Deviation, you can suggest it, or nominate it to be one, i think.
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